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EU grins, Russia grouses after pro-Europe forces win Moldovan election
“Moldova, you’ve done it again. No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve,” says European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Ketrin Jochecová/Elena Giordano, 09/29/25
European leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday as Moldova remained on its pro-EU path in a high-stakes parliamentary election marred by Russian influence operations.
With more than 99.9 percent of the ballots counted, the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) secured victory with 50.2 percent, well ahead of the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc (BEP), which collected 24.2 percent of the vote.
“Moldova, you’ve done it again. No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a post on X.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas echoed her boss, saying that Moldova’s vote is a “clear yes to a European future.”
“Despite Russia’s massive efforts to spread disinformation and buy votes, no force can stop a people committed to freedom,” Kallas said.
Sunday’s parliamentary election was heavily targeted by the Kremlin, seeking — but ultimately failing — to nudge the post-Soviet country back into its sphere of influence, according to analysts and Moldovan President Maia Sandu.
Further congratulations for the pro-EU movement poured in from Kyiv, Warsaw and Prague.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he called Sandu to congratulate her on her party’s victory.
“These elections showed that Russia’s destabilizing activity loses, while Moldova in Europe wins. Russian subversion, constant disinformation — none of this worked. It is important that Moldova was effective in defending itself against threats together with all who helped,” he said.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk added that the election was “a good lesson for us all.”
“It took real courage of the Moldovan nation and Maia Sandu personally to win this election. Not only did you save democracy and kept the European course, but you have also stopped Russia in its attempts to take control over the whole region. A good lesson for us all,” he said.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who faces being ousted from office by populist right-winger Andrej Babiš in an election this coming weekend, expressed hope for his own country.
“Great news from Moldova! … Voters in Moldova gave a clear stop to the pro-Russian parties. This is hope also for Czechia; please come to the polls and don’t let the country fall to Russian collaborators,” Fiala wrote.
The reaction from Moscow, however, was rather more sour.
Russia wasted little time in denouncing Moldova’s election outcome, casting the victory for Sandu’s party as illegitimate and orchestrated.
Alexander Gusev, a Kremlin-aligned political scientist and professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences, accused Sandu of manipulating the process to cement her pro-European course.
“The Moldovan authorities, and Sandu personally, are doing everything to ensure that these elections effectively confirm her legitimacy and the course toward European integration,” he told the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency. “For them there is no such thing as justice, they have a simple task and they carry it out like puppets of Europe.”
Leonid Slutsky, chair of the foreign affairs committee in Russia’s lower house of parliament, dismissed Sandu’s victory as a “Pyrrhic” one.
“As a result of these elections, Moldova will become even more divided,” he warned. “Sandu’s regime is leading Moldova down the path of Ukraine.”
Eva Hartog contributed to this report.
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Populist billionaire and Trump supporter Babis cruises to Czech election win
CNN/Reuters, 10/05/25
Billionaire Andrej Babis’s ANO party cruised to victory in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election on Saturday, raising the prospect of a government that would boost Europe’s populist, anti-immigration camp and reduce support for Ukraine.
An ebullient Babis told supporters that ANO would seek a one-party cabinet but would talk with two small parties – including the far-right SPD – for support as his party will lack an outright majority.
He again rejected accusations that his win would make the central European nation a less reliable European Union and NATO partner.
Who will Babis team up with?
“We want to save Europe … and we are clearly pro-European and pro-NATO,” Babis told reporters.
With nearly all results in, ANO was set to replace the current center-right cabinet led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala. Fiala congratulated Babis and conceded defeat.
ANO promised faster growth, higher wages and pensions, and lower taxes and tax discounts for students and young families during the campaign.
Those pledges – that will cost billions of euros, end austerity and test the country’s frugal mindset – resonated with many Czechs who have seen their real incomes plunge in recent years as the country tackled soaring inflation.
Babis, however, must overcome some hurdles to become prime minister, including conflict-of-interest laws as owner of a chemicals and food empire and long-running fraud charges related to drawing an EU subsidy over 15 years ago – charges he denies.
With 99% of voting districts counted, ANO was leading on 34.7% and Spolu in second on 23.2%, the Statistical Office said.
President Petr Pavel, who will appoint the next prime minister, was expected to start talks with party leaders on Sunday.
ANO was seen winning around 80 seats in the 200-seat lower house, results projections showed, and so will need to find wider support.
Babis said he would talk to the Motorists, who oppose the EU’s Green policies, and the anti-EU and anti-NATO SPD.
Motorists leader Petr Macinka said he was open to talks with ANO, as did SPD.
‘Strong Czechia’
“We went into the election with the aim of ending the government of Petr Fiala and support even for a minority cabinet of ANO is important for us and it would meet the target we had for this election,” SPD Deputy Chairman Radim Fiala said on television.
Overall, the fringe pro-Russian parties fared worse than expected in the partial results, with SPD on 7.8% and the far-left Stacilo!, built around the Communist Party, below the 5% threshold to enter parliament.
Babis, who led a center-left cabinet in 2017-2021, once wanted to join the euro but has since become a eurosceptic and a supporter of US President Donald Trump, handing out “Strong Czechia” baseball caps inspired by Trump’s MAGA slogan.
An ally of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, Babis has teamed up with a number of far-right parties in the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament to challenge the mainstream direction of Europe’s policies, including decarbonisation.
He has rejected calls from SPD to hold a referendum on leaving the EU and NATO, but has said he would end the “Czech initiative” that has bought millions of artillery rounds from around the world for Ukraine with funding from Western donors.
ANO wants NATO and the EU to handle aid for Ukraine, and has abstained in some European Parliament votes supporting Kyiv and its bid for EU membership, which Babis has opposed in the past.
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